From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>,
git@vger•kernel.org, j.sixt@viscovery•net
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 3/3] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of #
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:39:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmwo18pgw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130828201803.GB8088@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:18:03 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> What are our plans to help existing scripts people have written over
>> time, especially before "status -s" was invented, that will be
>> broken by use of this?
>
> I thought that our response to parsing the long output of "git status"
> was always "you are doing it wrong". The right way has always been to
> run the plumbing tools yourself, followed eventually by the --porcelain
> mode to "git status" being blessed as a convenient plumbing.
>
> I will not say that people might not do it anyway, but at what point do
> we say "you were warned"?
OK, sounds good enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-28 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-28 8:32 [RFC/PATCH] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of # Matthieu Moy
2013-08-28 11:03 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-08-28 12:43 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-28 12:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v2 1/3] builtin/stripspace.c: fix broken indentation Matthieu Moy
2013-08-28 12:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v2 2/3] submodule: introduce --[no-]display-comment-char Matthieu Moy
2013-08-28 21:07 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-08-29 7:04 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-28 12:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v2 3/3] status: introduce status.displayCommentChar to disable display of # Matthieu Moy
2013-08-28 20:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-28 20:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-28 20:18 ` Jeff King
2013-08-28 21:39 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-08-28 21:59 ` David Aguilar
2013-08-28 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-29 6:58 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-31 0:00 ` brian m. carlson
2013-08-28 20:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-28 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-28 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-28 23:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-29 6:50 ` Matthieu Moy
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=xmqqmwo18pgw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com \
--to=gitster@pobox$(echo .)com \
--cc=Matthieu.Moy@imag$(echo .)fr \
--cc=git@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
--cc=j.sixt@viscovery$(echo .)net \
--cc=peff@peff$(echo .)net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox